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Kemp, Nenagh – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2009
Two experiments examined the influence of dialect on the spelling of vowel sounds. British and Australian children (6 to 8 years) and university students wrote words whose unstressed vowel sound is spelled i or e and pronounced /I/ or /schwa/. Participants often (mis)spelled these vowel sounds as they pronounced them. When vowels were pronounced…
Descriptors: Spelling, Pronunciation, Dialects, Vowels